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JANUARY 1989
TABLE OF CONTENTS
UKCC Short Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Online Registration for Short Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Holiday Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Micro Lab Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Sending TeX Output to the IBM 3800 Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
The Forgotten Inventor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734
Service Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
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UKCC SHORT COURSES
The following short courses are free to all UK faculty, staff,
and students, but preregistration is required. If you register for a
course and then find that you will be unable to attend, please cancel
your registration by calling 257-UKCC. Failure to do so may
jeopardize your right to register for future UKCC short courses.
There are several ways you can register, depending on the class:
* You can register online (see line 329 for specific
directions) -- some classes require online registration; or
* You can register by calling 257-UKCC (this is Voice Mail
Exchange, your registration will be confirmed by phone
within five days).
Many of these classes don't require any knowledge or experience
with any computer system. If there are prerequisites for a particular
class, they'll be listed in the class description. If you have
questions about class content or bypassing prerequisites, call the
instructor for that class.
Introduction to VM/CMS and XEDIT
Tuesday, January 17 and Thursday, January 19
Noon to 2:00 p.m.
104 M.I. King Library
Saturday, February 11 and Saturday, February 18
10:00 a.m. to Noon
103 McVey Hall
Monday, March 27 and Tuesday, March 28
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
A basic introduction to interactive use of the IBM mainframe systems,
this class presumes no previous knowledge of the IBM systems or any
other computer system. You'll learn how to access the computer, how
to create and manage files on your account, and how to use online
tools such as CALENDAR and VIEW. You'll also learn how to use the CMS
text editor, XEDIT, to create and modify individual files. This
course will be taught in two two-hour sessions. Both sessions will
provide hands-on practice of the commands that are covered. You will
be given a class computer account which will remain active for the
duration of the course. This course will be offered three times
during the Spring semester. Your instructor will be Pat Murphy
(257-2244).
Introduction to Electronic Mail on the IBM Thursday, January 26
Noon to 2:00 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
An introduction to the MAIL command on the IBM 3084, this class is for
the beginner. You'll learn how to create mail files and send them to
other IBM system users, to WANG system users, or to PRIME system
users. We will also cover the use of BITNET to communicate with
individuals at other academic centers around the world. You will
learn how to read incoming mail and some techniques for storing old
mail. We'll also discuss how to create and maintain a NAMES file of
individuals with whom you frequently correspond. You will be taught
the logon sequence and some basic CMS background before we begin the
discussion of MAIL. This class presumes no previous knowledge of the
IBM systems or any other computer system. You'll be given a CMS
account for the duration of the course and will receive hands-on
instruction for all the commands covered. Your instructor will be Pat
Murphy (257-2244).
Introduction to PRIMEWORD Tuesday and Thursday
January 31 and February 2
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
The UKCC has recently installed a new word processing package on the
PRIME computer which behaves much like the full screen word processing
packages available on most PC's. It is modeled after a PC software
package, WordMarc. It is menu-driven to a large degree, making it
easy for even the novice computer user to generate professional
looking documents with a minimum of effort. There is a laser printer
connected to the PRIME which is accessible through PRIMEWORD providing
letter-quality printout. This class presumes no previous knowledge of
the PRIME system or experience with any other computer system. There
are no prerequisites for this class. You'll be given a class computer
account and receive supervised hands-on practice in using the
commands. Your instructor will be Pat Murphy (257- 2244).
Introduction to PHOENIX Monday through Wednesday
February 13 - 15
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
The UKCC has recently purchased PHOENIX, a courseware authoring and
presentation system, to run on the IBM 3084. This software greatly
simplifies the task of creating computer-based training packages and
computer test bank applications. The system provides a powerful full
screen editor for creating presentation screens. Standard question
types which are supported through a complex answer analysis feature
are short answer, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and true-false.
The entire system from sign-on to sign-off is menu-driven, making it
relatively easy even for non-programmers to develop quality computer
courseware to supplement or enhance existing classroom instruction.
Students can access courseware written for the IBM 3084 from any of
the terminal cluster sites on campus. This introductory course is
intended for anyone who has an interest in developing computer-aided
instruction. No previous computer experience is required. Pat Murphy
will be your instructor (257-2244).
Graphics Tools and Concepts Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
January 23, 25, 27
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
326 McVey Hall (CCS)
An introduction to mainframe graphics fundamentals, the three-day
course will examine the terminology, techniques, devices, and software
systems commonly used for graphics applications on the IBM systems.
You'll learn how these tools and concepts may be integrated into
instructional and research programs, and how to identify and develop
potential graphics applications. Online demonstrations and exercises
will be used extensively. No previous graphics or programming
experience is necessary, but some knowledge of interactive computing
and CMS will be helpful. Your instructor will be Bob Williamson
(257-2227).
Introduction to FORTRAN Wednesday, January 18, 1989
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
An introduction to using VS FORTRAN and WATFOR-77 on the IBM 3084.
The course will cover the statements used to compile and run FORTRAN
source code using the CMS or MVS system. Useful options available
with the VS FORTRAN compiler will be covered. Converting older
FORTRAN code (FORTRAN G, FORTRAN H, etc.) to compile and run with the
VS FORTRAN compiler will be discussed. Prerequisites are familiarity
with CMS and XEDIT for file building and editing, and a solid
background in FORTRAN coding. This is NOT a course about learning to
program in FORTRAN. Tom Faller will be your instructor (257-2236).
Online registration is required for this course.
Introduction to Vectorized FORTRAN Wednesday, January 25
10:00 a.m. to Noon
103 McVey Hall
An introduction to coding VS FORTRAN programs to use the Vector
Facility on the IBM 3090 computer. Vectorization reduces the amount
of time needed to process DO loops by concurrently processing the DO
loop elements. Vectorization will work on unmodified code, but program
speedup can be increased by proper coding techniques. Emphasis will be
on using a vector compile log to find out which parts of a program
need attention, and strategies for increasing the amount of code that
is vectorizable. A good background in FORTRAN is prerequisite, as
well as familiarity with CMS and XEDIT. Vectorizing works only with
VS FORTRAN, so the FORTRAN class described above is a useful
prerequisite if your code is in an older version of FORTRAN. Your
instructor will be Tom Faller (257-2236). Online registration is
required for this course.
Introduction to Parallel FORTRAN Thursday, January 26
10:00 a.m. to Noon
103 McVey Hall
The course will cover the basic concepts of parallel computing, and
the extra statements in VS FORTRAN necessary to controlling a parallel
job. Parallel FORTRAN allows a single job to execute across the
multiple processors of an IBM 3090. Work is assigned to several
tasks, which can execute concurrently. Parallel FORTRAN is available
on the VM/XA system at UKCC. Vectorization of a parallel program will
also be discussed. You should have a strong VS FORTRAN background,
possibly with the other two FORTRAN short courses above. Your
instructor will be Tom Faller (257-2236). Online registration is
required for this course.
Introduction to SAS Monday through Friday
January 30 through February 3
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
SAS is a collection of powerful and flexible data management and
statistical analysis procedures that allow you to create and analyze
libraries of data files on the IBM 3084. The course will emphasize
simple data manipulation and general syntax and is designed for new
and inexperienced SAS users. CMS and XEDIT knowledge is prerequisite.
Your instructor will be Steve Thomson (257-2259). Online registration
is required for this course.
Introduction to DI3000 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
February 6, 8, and 10
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
326 McVey Hall (CCS)
DI3000, from Precision Visuals, Inc., is a device-independent, general
purpose graphics software system. Primarily a toolkit of FORTRAN
subroutines for the graphics programmer, it's easy to understand and
use, and functionally rich and diverse. In this three-day class
you'll learn to apply DI3000 tools to charts and graphs,
illustrations, contour and three-dimensional surface maps, and
high-quality text applications on the IBM systems. No previous
graphics experience is necessary, but knowledge of FORTRAN and CMS
will be helpful. Bob Williamson will be your instructor (257-2227).
Online registration is required for this course.
Introduction to SAS/GRAPH Tuesday and Thursday, February 7 and 9
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
SAS/GRAPH is a collection of SAS PROCs that can be used to draw text
in various fonts; plot values in the x-y plane with various curves;
draw three-dimensional and contour plots of functions; display bar,
pie, star, and block charts; and plot several different map displays
using SAS datasets for county, state, and country boundaries on the
IBM 3084. The Introduction to SAS short course, described above, is a
prerequisite. Lorinda Wang will be your instructor (257-2204).
Online registration is required for this course.
Introduction to SCRIPT Tuesday and Thursday, February 14 and 16
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
An introduction to the text processor on the IBM 3084. This course
will be particularly helpful if you must prepare large documents for
research work or for routine course work. This class will cover the
basic script commands and commands for generating letter-quality
output on the Apple LaserWriters. Completion of Introduction to
VM/CMS and XEDIT, described above, is an adequate prerequisite. Your
instructor will be Dave McCreary (257-2264). Online registration is
required for this course.
Introduction to graPHIGS Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
February 20, 22, and 24
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
326 McVey Hall (CCS)
This course will deal with the basic capabilities of the IBM graphics
software system "graPHIGS." It is a very powerful graphics modeling
and drawing subroutine system based on the PHIGS graphics standard.
It is normally accessed on the IBM 3090 using IBM 5085 workstations.
This will be a "getting started" kind of session. Participants will
learn to access the software, attach the workstations, write simple
programs, and display and manipulate output. They will also learn to
use IBM supplied reference materials. A knowledge of CMS and FORTRAN
are essential. Some experience with DI3000, GDDM, Zeta library, or
any other graphics subroutine system will be helpful. Your instructor
will be Bob Williamson (257-2227). Online registration is required
for this course.
Introduction to SPSS-X Tuesday through Thursday
February 21 through 24
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
SPSS-X is a powerful program for displaying and analyzing data on the
IBM 3084. This course is designed for those who have little or no
knowledge of SPSS-X, but experience with CMS, or completion of the
Introduction to VM/CMS & XEDIT, is prerequisite. Your instructor will
be Lorinda Wang (257- 2204). Online registration is required for this
course.
Introduction to SCRIPT Equation Processing Tuesday, February 28
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
103 McVey Hall
Release 88.1 of SCRIPT provides commands for including very
complex equations as part of a text document. These commands
will be discussed in this class. Experience with using SCRIPT
or completion of the Introduction to SCRIPT class described
above is a prerequisite for attendance in this course. Your
instructor will be Dave McCreary (257-2264). Online registration is
required for this course.
Advanced Graphics Programming Tools Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
March 20, 22, and 24
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
326 McVey Hall (CCS)
This course will concentrate on more advanced features and
capabilities of DI3000 and other mainframe Precision Visuals software
modules. Topics will include the use of "metafiles" and the PVI
Metafile Translator, fundamental modeling and animation techniques,
retained segments and segment storage data structures, and contour and
3-D mesh surface mapping on the IBM systems. Newer additions to the
PVI software family will be introduced and demonstrated. Participants
in this workshop should be familiar with CMS, VS FORTRAN, and basic
DI3000 programming. Bob Williamson will be your instructor
(257-2227). Online registration is required for this course.
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ONLINE SHORT COURSE REGISTRATION
You can now register for UKCC short courses using the new
SHORTCOURSE calendar on the IBM 3084. (Some short courses require
online registration.) To use this utility, access the Public disk.
Enter
PUBLIC
SHORTCOUrse
You'll see a calendar on your screen that displays all UKCC short
courses offered during a three- week period. Place the cursor on a
specific course and press PF4 to register for that class. You can
access the HELP facility for SHORTCOURSE, which also includes
registration, by pressing PF1.
After you've pressed PF4 on a specific date, you'll be asked to
choose one of the courses offered on that day. These will be
displayed in a numbered list. Enter the number of the course.
You'll be asked a few questions about your experience on the UKCC
system. These are all yes/no questions, such as "Have you used XEDIT
previously?" If you don't meet the prerequisites, you should contact
the instructor before registering. If you do meet all the recommended
prerequisites, you'll be prompted for your name, address, phone, and
e-mail address. After each prompt, enter your response.
Once you've entered the necessary information, the program will
display your registration status and return you to the SHORTCOURSE
facility.
If the course you want isn't displayed, press PF8 to scroll
forward through the calendar.
If the class is full, you'll be informed that your name is being
put on a waiting list for that course. In the event you're moved onto
the roll at a later date, the instructor will notify you.
To leave SHORTCOURSE, press PF3.
If you experience any problems with this procedure, contact Bob
Crovo at 257-2258, 109 McVey Hall, or CROVO@UKCC.
Of course, you can still register for some short courses by
calling 257-UKCC.
-- James McGillivray
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HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
Monday, December 26, 1988 through Monday, January 2, 1989 is an
official UK holiday, as well as Monday, January 16. The UKCC offices,
Consulting Room, and Micro Lab will be closed on these dates. The
Data Center and Users Rooms in 103 and 111 McVey Hall will be open
from Noon until 12:30 a.m.
The IBM and PRIME systems will be in operation, as usual.
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MICRO LAB HOURS
The Micro Lab in 107 McVey Hall will be operating on an
abbreviated schedule during the months of December and January due to
the holidays.
Here's the schedule for December and the beginning of January:
December 24 to January 2 CLOSED
January 3 to 6 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
January 9 to 13 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
January 16 CLOSED
Micro Lab hours for the new semester beginning January 17, 1989,
will be Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Friday
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday from 1:00 to 9:00 p.m.
If you need more information, contact Lavine Thrailkill at
257-2257, UKC105@UKCC.
-- Lavine Thrailkill
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SENDING TeX OUTPUT TO THE IBM 3800 PRINTER
A new utility called DVI3800 has been added to TeX software.
DVI3800 will translate a DVI file created using TeX or LaTeX to an
IBM 3800 printer file.
To access TeX software and learn more about how to use TeX or
LaTeX, enter
GRAB TEX
GRAB TEX 291
HELP TEX
You only need to GRAB the TEX disks once during the log-on session.
Once you've accessed the TEX disks with the GRAB command, you can learn
more about the DVI3800 command by entering
HELP DVI3800
The format of the DVI3800 command is
DVI3800 fn < ( nstart >
DVI3800 translates the fn DVI file to an IBM 3800 printer file
called fn LIST38PP. This file will be created on your A disk. You can
print part of the document by using the optional arguments nstart and
ntotal. Thus
DVI3800 myfile ( 2 5
will create printer output for pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of the document in
myfile TEX using the file myfile DVI.
To print fn LIST38PP, an MVS job must be submitted. A sample job
file is shown below. This file is stored on the TEX disk as SMALL
JOB. Copy this file and replace filename, username, jobname, and user
password. Then use the command
SUBMIT jobname ( CENTRAL
to submit the job to the IBM 3800. You can then delete fn LIST38PP,
unless you'll want to print more copies later.
//filename JOB userid
..INC userpass PSWD *
//OGLSAMP OUTPUT FORMDEF=OGL
//JES OUTPUT JESDS=ALL,DEFAULT=YES,DEST=UKCC.userid
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=CJSPREP
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A
//SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=A,DCB=(RECFM=VBM,LRECL=8205,BLKSIZE=8209),
// OUTPUT=*.OGLSAMP
//SYSUT1 DD *
..INC filename LIST38PP * (V
/*
If you'd like more information or help with TeX, contact Shashi
Sathaye at 257-2247, SYSSHASH@UKCC.UKY.EDU, 210 McVey Hall.
-- Shashi Sathaye
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THE FORGOTTEN INVENTOR
Quick! Who invented the light bulb? Edison? Right for ten
points! Now, who made the first powered airplane flight? The Wright
brothers? Correct again for another ten points and a weekend for
three in Calgary!
Now, for the game, a year's supply of stationery, and a Yugo
convertible, who invented the modern electronic digital computer?
Alan Turing? Steve Wozniak? Some guy named Computer?
bzzzzzzzzzz
Time's up! The correct answer is John V. Atanasoff.
Who?
Since counting above ten became widespread, man has devised
various objects and machines to ease the pain of laborious
calculation. Most of these devices involved physically moving matter
from one place to another to keep track of mathematical calculations
done in the head. Then, in the 1800s, a series of mechanical
calculating engines were created which could actually derive a result
by manipulation of the correct set of levers or knobs. Nearly all of
these engines depended on carefully machined parts and an analog
method of computation.
Most histories of computers say that electronic computers were
invented in the 1940's partly in response to the need for a quick way
to do the enormous number of calculations involved in cryptography,
the practice of breaking secret codes. The first large-scale use of
an electronic computer, The Colossus, built in England by Alan Turing
and M.H.A. Newman, was used to help decipher the German Enigma code.
Its success helped to change the course of the war.
Between 1937 and 1942, however, two smaller working electronic
computers were being built and tested at Iowa State College by
Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry. The story of
these computers was lost in the confusion of World War II, and it
would be more than 20 years before the computers and their inventor
received recognition. These computers embodied many of the design
elements of computers today.
What set Atanasoff's designs apart from the limited, inefficient
calculating engines of his time? His pioneer idea was to base all
control and arithmetic functions on electronic switches, by means of
vacuum tubes. Instead of representing numbers directly, he used their
representation in base 2 so they could be manipulated using rules of
logic instead of direct counting. He designed the first hard-wired
logic circuits to do his arithmetic and control functions. These
design elements are shared by modern computers today, on the scale of
microcircuits with binary arithmetic and hard-wired transistor layout
of logic circuits. He also separated memory and computation modules,
and discovered a means of storing memory on regenerating capacitors
mounted on rotating disks. Today's computers still separate memory
and computing circuits, and capacitors are still used as regenerative
components, although they have been replaced in memory storage roles.
Atanasoff's computer could solve systems of linear equations, and
his circuit design allowed him to operate on the coefficients in
parallel, much the same as UKCC's IBM 3090 vector processors do today.
Atanasoff's computer was assembled and running by 1942. Like the
machines to follow, it had bugs. His data was read in and written
out on punched cards (a design going back to Herman Hollerith's census
machine in the 1890s). The punched card system had errors in about
one operation in 10,000, which meant that large problems could not be
attempted without extensive checking and recalculation. Small systems
of equations could be handled with no problem.
Unfortunately, World War II erupted before Atanasoff and Berry
could demonstrate their machine to the scientific world and receive
funding for perfecting it. Atanasoff joined the US Naval Ordinance
Laboratory, and Berry took a draft-deferred position.
The patent applications for Atanasoff's work were never finished.
By the end of the war, Atanasoff's computer had been cannibalized and
dismantled without his knowledge, and an electronic computer built by
John Mauchly and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in
1945, ENIAC, was being touted as the new standard for calculating
machines. Atanasoff believed ENIAC operated on principles very
different from his computer, and so, never pursued his patents.
Instead, he busied himself in starting an engineering-research firm.
In 1967 Sperry Rand Corporation brought suit against Honeywell,
Inc., for failure to pay royalties on Sperry's recently purchased
patent rights to the ENIAC computer. Honeywell contended that the
patent was invalid.
During pre-trial investigation, Honeywell's lawyers discovered
that Mauchly had corresponded with Atanasoff, and that comparison of
the ENIAC patent with Atanasoff's machine design revealed that Mauchly
had used information from Atanasoff for the ENIAC's basic design.
Further investigation showed that Mauchly had not only corresponded
with Atanasoff, but had met him at MIT in 1941 and that Atanasoff had
demonstrated his computer at that time.
The ENIAC patent was declared invalid in 1973, and Atanasoff was
recognized as the originator of most of the principles of modern
computers today. Unfortunately, the decision did not bring him
immediate fame, as the media was occupied with Watergate and Vietnam.
Recent attention in scientific circles, however, has helped restore
his place in history.
If Atanasoff had received his patents, they would have ranked as
the most significant patents of the century. He could legitimately
claim to have invented electronic digital computation, electronic
digital switching, vector processing, memory regeneration, and many
other processes. His concepts underlie most of modern electronic
computing today.
Today Atanasoff is a retired physics professor. He has never
received any royalties for his ideas, but recent attention in
scientific circles has helped restore his place in history.
-- Tom Faller
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SUGGESTIONS
1. There's a bundle of terminals stored in the Computer Room because
they were replaced by new terminals. How about using them to fill
some of the holes left in 111 McVey Hall when broken terminals were
removed?
>>>Many of the terminals you saw in the Machine Room were faulty.
Those that were in good working order were placed in 111 McVey to
fill vacant spots. A few others are being retained as replacements
and will be used when they're needed.
2. Since the modem number has been changed to 257-9200 I've
encountered login problems to the 3084 and 3090 that I did not
encounter before. There is more noise, and sometimes I can't manage
to login before the line jams. Sunday evening, Nov. 20, I could login
to our Physics Microvax II, to the PRIME, but could not manage either
3084 or 3090. Are there some special port problems with the IBM
facilities? I get as far as ready to get the map of Kentucky logo,
when the port just sits there, unmoving.
>>>On the evening of Sunday, November 20, there was a power failure
that shut down many of the systems. Evidently, you logged on just
moments before the IBM systems came back up, but after the PRIMEs
came back up.
3. What is best way to print with lrecl > 132 in a CMS file?
>>>If the LRECL is 133 and is output from an OS job, then the 133rd
character is carriage control meant to control a JES printer. In this
case, use the CC option on the PRINT or FPRINT command. An even
better solution in this case is to not ACCEPT the file to disk in the
first place. Reader files can be examined with RBrowse. If you want
to print, use the OUTPUT command to send the reader file to a printer
of your choice. Check the help files for OUTPUT, PRINT, and FPRINT...
for more information.
For files with longer LRECL there's a different method. There
are four new PAGEDEFs for printing from MVS. Your file could be
included as the data file for a print job like the following example.
//PRTLONG JOB ,'yourname'
//*LOGONID MVSid
//*PASSWORD MVSpassword
//*
//LONG OUTPUT FORMDEF=STD,PAGEDEF=LL164
//*LONG OUTPUT FORMDEF=STD,PAGEDEF=LL202
//*LONG OUTPUT FORMDEF=STD,PAGEDEF=LL219
//*LONG OUTPUT FORMDEF=STD,PAGEDEF=LL292
//*
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=CJSPREP
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A
//SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=A,DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=300,BLKSIZE=300),
// OUTPUT=*.LONG
//SYSUT1 DD *
..INC filename filetype (V
/*
CJSPREP is a program used to reconstruct records of long record length
files that were chopped up to transmit to MVS. Only MVS jobs can
print using the new PAGEDEFs. The number on the PAGEDEF refers to the
number of characters printed on each line. The higher the number, the
smaller the characters.
4. Why the new logo? Every other system I use has the standard giant
block letters. Kentucky's logo was different and had a real
identifying character for the state and the University; now you might
as well be any other U something. Why not take a user's poll about
the new logo?
>>>Thanks for your comments. The University has established a new,
easily recognized institutional logo for use throughout the University
system. The new logon graphic was designed to complement this effort.
5. I logged on my account from home over a modem port, which was
interrupted by a phone call. This occurred Thursday, early. After
the call, I tried to reconnect, but couldn't because the port
responded "already logged on to graf C50". Usually I get a break
which lets me reconnect, but not this time. I called the Operator,
and asked him to disconnect me. He did, and said all was clear.
This morning I logged on, and found that I was reconnecting, back into
the same file I had been editing Thurday morning! Did the Operator
really disconnect me, so I wasn't tying up a port? And if my
modem connection is broken, is there a chance I won't be able
to reconnect in the future?
>>>Yes, you were disconnected, and the port was free for other users.
When you're disconnected this way your work is only interrupted and
you can resume where you left off, but you should log on again quickly
because you may be logged off after fifteen minutes under some
circumstances.
6. How do I download a file from VIEW to my PC? I use Kermit and
regularly transmit files back and forth between my PC and my CMS
account, so I know how to download files, but how do I gain access to
VIEW files?
>>>There is no general way to download from VIEW at this time.
However, you can save a particular file by entering SAVE fn ft fm
while you're viewing the file. Just give the file your choice of
names and filetypes. This will create a file on your CMS disk
which you can then edit, download, or send to the printer.
SAVE fn ft fm will also copy HELP files to your CMS disk. If
you need more help or information, contact a Consultant in
110 McVey Hall, SUGGEST@UKCC, 257-2249.
7. How come Purdue gets their IBM 3090 vectorized and it appears in
the "logmsg" over the weekend, and we go and act like it's a huge
improvement over the original 3081? And how come the students were
placed back on the 3084? Was the 3090 having problems keeping up with
the assembler? Come to think of it, the 3084 did seem at least twice
as fast.
>>>The IBM 3081 had two processors with a combined throughput about
equal to one of the IBM 3090's three processors. This is without the
vector processors.
8. When attempting to register online for a short course I got the
following error msg: "File 'SAS QUESTION *' not found."
>>>We've fixed this; thanks for reporting it.
9. Just now I was trying to use 'ftp' and I received a message
"Unable to receive TCP - Software error in TCP." Can you please do
something about this? I've also noticed long delays in connecting
to other machines and transferring files.
>>>Can you give us more details about this? We've only noticed long
delays when going out of SURANet; that is, to places like SRI.NIC.ARPA.
We assumed that this was due to overloaded ArpaNet lines. FTP and
Telnet to our campus machines and other SURANet campuses have been
pretty zippy (for us). If you can give us more details such as
the time, machines, and symptoms, we'll look into it.
10. For the third time this week--always in early to mid-afternoon--I
have received the "all ports busy" message when trying to logon to
UKCC. For most of the semester access has been no problem. Why is
the system now getting congested? Are still more ports needed to keep
up with growing usage?
>>>To keep up with the rapidly expanding network we are continually
adding as many new ports as current funding will allow. While we
try to avoid "all ports busy" during peak times, the network can
still become congested during mid-term and at the end of the
semesters. We're aware of the problem, and we regret any
inconvenience this may have caused you.
11. I would like to request some way for the monitors to have 132
column displays. The TVI955s are capable of it, and I think the
normal IBM terminals are also capable of it.
>>>Thanks for the suggestions. It might be possible to provide 132
column support for some terminals.
12. Great job on the new Micro Lab connections! It was very difficult
to download files from one of the campus mainframes, but with the
several new 19.2K baud connections in the Micro Lab, it's much easier
and faster to get a machine to use. Thanks for the new resources!
They were badly needed, especially for people trying to transfer
large files from the IBM to the Wang without all the trouble of
magnetic tape.
>>>Thanks! Expanding services for our users is one of our
continuing objectives.
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Douglas E. Hurley, Central Administration
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